Open government. An approach from the New Public Management

Abstract

The main orientation of this article is to reflect on the contributions of the New Public Management to the success of an open government, accompanied by two guidelines that seek to sustain the purpose of the research, such as identifying the principles of the New Public Management that contribute to the open government discourse and interpreting the narrative on open government from an investigative position. Its methodological route is raised from a phenomenological perspective with a qualitative approach and inductive dimension, with a descriptive and documentary level, in addition to being a field and non-experimental research; as a data analysis strategy, the one proposed by the grounded theory (Strauss and Corbin) was used; from the interpretative phase, the hermeneutic method was applied to understand and understand the discourse of key informants, in this case being experienced researchers, who narrated their empirical and scientific experiences on the issues of open government and on the dogmas of the New Public Management, this thanks to the so-called in-depth interview. The research found among its substantive findings the possibility of a central category that includes all the substantive concepts of the research, being called this category: Open Government: A new paradigm of public management. This proposal of good practice allows the public institutions of the Province of Manabí to find principles of citizen participation and transparency focused from the perspective of institutional governance.